- Amazing Fastest Stone Splitting Technique - Incredible Modern Granite Mining Machines Technology - Granite Stone Cutting Machines 

 Always amazed me how such small wedges can split such massive blocks of stone so precisely.  I have always been fascinated by human power things, Bicycles, bow and arrows even splitting stone. That first guy has my respect  This procedure for splitting rocks by hand is always spectacular to see.
Therefore it has been used by the ancient Egyptians already and still in Europe during the fifties of the last century for directly obtaining up to 3.0m in diameter and up to 0.5m thick grinding wheels from various rock quarries.  Genius! All of this is amazing, but at about 4:08 when he 'one arms' the lever to split it, I was hooked!  I could watch this all day, everyday...